#30: Python Community and Python at Dropbox

Despite Python being overwhelmingly popular and positive, there are major areas of computing where Python is not present. Most notably on mobile and on the frontend side of the web. PyScript, a new pr...

25 Maj 20221h 13min

Does your app have a database? Does that database play an important role in how the app operations and users perceive its quality? Most of you probably said yes to the first, and definitely to the sec...

20 Maj 20221h 14min

How much time do you spend solving negative engineering problems? And can a framework solve them for you? Think of negative engineering as things you do to avoid bad outcomes in software. At the lowes...

12 Maj 20221h 4min

We're all familiar with the data science tools like numpy, pandas, and others. These are numerical tools working with floating point numbers, often to represent real-world systems. But what if you exa...

7 Maj 20221h 7min

Are you coming to Python from another language and ecosystem? It can seem a bit daunting at first. But Python is very welcoming and has a massive array of tools and libraries. In this episode, I speak...

28 Apr 20221h 6min

What would a modern Python project look like? Maybe it would use Poetry rather than pip directly for its package management. Perhaps its test automation would be controlled with Nox. You might automat...

20 Apr 20221h 6min

Python's place in climate research is an important one. In this episode, you'll meet Joe Hamman and Ryan Abernathey, two researchers using powerful cloud computing systems and Python to understand how...

16 Apr 202254min

Python has come a long way since it was released in 1991. It originally released when the Standard Library was primary the totality of functionality you could leverage when building your applications....

8 Apr 20221h 20min